Where would we be without metaphors in our spiritual conversations? How else would we describe those ineffable transcendent moments, or the feelings we have when the Spirit moves, or the exquisite joy that is, to quote Teilhard de Chardin, “the most infallible sign of the presence of God”? This week’s resources use the metaphors of tapestries and weaving, of music in the world, of trees with roots and branches. What metaphors of the Sacred speak to you?
Beyond the encounter with the historic Jesus is the meeting with the Inner Christ.
read moreearthsized waves ring gospel truth
in measures long as swells of surf
wide as air among redwood trees
a word or tune will catch the beat
Our lives can be described through the language of pictorial depiction
So can humankind’s relation to our Creator-God, often with conviction
